The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31

dressed selling at % TO &c anu western
live at 81 to &c per pound.
vEALs.-Recepts, III head. The market
was firm, prices ranging at p to &C per lb.
PoULTRY.-The supply Of live poultry
was $500 pounds. Mixed lots sold at 10 to
lie and chicks at 12Ic per pound.
HIDES, TALLow, ETC.-We quote Brighton
hides at 81 to &c and country lots at 9 to &c
per III: caif-skins, &c per Id; sheared pelts,
IL to 25c each; lamb skins, 30 to 75c each;
dairy skins, IL to Doc each; Brighton tai
low, % to &c and country lots at u to &c
per pound.
BOSTON COUNTRY PRODUCE.
EGGs- There has been steady demand
for choice fresh stock and prices have adj
vanced somewhat. Vermont and New
York sell at IL to zoe and choice Western at
151 to 16c per dozen.
CHEEsE-The market has been dull for
the past week, and although some of the
finest fresh receipts of Northern are held
above quotations it is difficult to effect sales
of consequence. Extra Vermont sells at II
to lie, good to choice at 10 to 10lc, common
at to SC and extra sage at 10 to lie per Id.
BEANs.-Receipts continue moderate and
all choice stock is meeting with a ready
sale. Pea and medium beans are wanted.
But few Yellow Eyes are Offering. Choice
hand picked Pea sell at $500 to 500,
Yellow Eyes at S1.j0 to S1.55, do screened
at 81 80 to S1.40 and Red Kidneys at S1.G5
to $40 per bushel
HAY AND SrRAw.-The market is firm for
fancy old hay, but ordinary grades are dull
and weak. The former grades are rather
scarce, however, while the latter are still in
heavy stock, We quote choice prime hay
at $500 to $3.50, fair to good at S14.00
to $1,000 and poor at $11.00 to S14.00. Rye
straw sells at $500 to $3.50 and oat at
$500 to $3.50 per ton.
BUTTER.-Trade has been at d standstil
for the past week and the market closes
with a dull tone. For extra fresh-made
Western creamery Doc is now an extreme
price, but we hear of no strictly extra goods
Offering for less. The next lower grades
are extremely dull. Extra frsts of current
make are hard to place and rarely reach
our quotations, as June goods of better quail
ity can be had at the same price. Northern
creamery is moving slowly and sales are
rare at over 2jc. The Northern dairy lots
are showing better quality and are held at
about the range of prices quoted last week,
but have slow sale. All goods below 1Sc
are in light supply. We quote extra Northern
creamery at "a to 25c extra Western cream
cry at 23 to 24c, choice do at IS to 20c, the
finest Franklin county dairy at 21 to 22c,
good to choice do at Is to 20c, choice North
ern dairy at Is to 20c and fair to good do
at Is to 1Sc per pound.
BOSTON FLOUR AND GRAIN.
FLoUR.-The market has become very
firm. Although there is still somewhat of a
conservative feeling there seems more of a
disposition to buy ahead of daily needs.
These daily needs, however, have become
of considerable magnitude and it takes a
large quantity of flour to supply them
Prices are held with great strength, es-
pecially as there is a lighter supply than
usual in the market. Fine sells at S2.3j to
$3.50, supertine at $3.50 to 1915, common
extras at $500 to $40, Michigan roller at
S4.40 to $3.50 and spring wheat patents at
$40 to $3.50 per barrel.
GRAIN.-Trade continues quiet, with little
change to note in prices. Supplies are
light, but the demand is about equally
so. Corn sells at 81 to 565c and oats
at "a to 414c per bushel, as to quail
ity. Winter wheat bran brings $3.50 to
$40 90, spring wheat bran $500 to $3.50,
middlings $500 to S21O0 and cotton-seed
meal $3.50 to $3.50 per ton.
THE WOOL MARKET.
TRADE has not been so active for the past
week and fewer manufacturers have been
in the market, owing, undoubtedly to the
very rainy weather which prevailed. The
stock of wool held by the manufacturers is
very light, and they are waiting for good
demand for manufactured goods before buy
ing more than is absolutely necessary for
their immediate wants. The foreign goods
many manufacturers. There is no special
demand for any grade of WOOL but medium
woods hold up in value better than any
others. Ohio Xxx sells at 80 to 34c, Ohio X
at 81 to SIC, Michigan No 1 at 81 to 3Sc,
Maine supers at 43 to Acc and extra West
ern supers at 30 to 35c per pound.
THE LUMBER TRADE.
THE receipts have not been heavy the
past week, the vessels being kept back by
the stormy weather. The demand has been
good and prices of Eastern lumber have re-
manned steady throughout. The demand
for Northern lumber has been very fair and
we note steady prices there also. Hard
wood lumber has been in fair demand for
good cherry and medium and low-grade
walnut. Oak is in fair demand, but ash
and whtewood are slow. Following are
quotations for carload lots Rough hemlocll
boards sell at $1,000 to 5000 and planed do
at $3.50; the best clear spruce floor boards
at $3.50 to 5000, coarse at $500 and
refuse at $500 to $500; one-inch box
boards at $500 and seven-eighths do at
S11.00; Eastern sawed cedar shingles at
$40 to S3.62b, clear do at $500 to So. 129 the
best shaved shingles at 1928 other grades
at S3.25 to S475 and No. spruce at Sl,25 to
S1.50; extra four-foot spruce clapboards at
$500 to 500, do clear at S26 to S27 90 and
other grades at $40 to S21. 90; pine and spruce
laths at $500 to 1925 and spruce under
floors at 5000 to $500.